/lit/ - Literature

I heard ''Altered Carbon" by Richard K. Morgan was a good science fiction book

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins would fit your requirements.

>>906415
Cool, just put it on hold at the library. I just read up on it and saw it's in development for a film adaptation, which is a HUGE PLUS. If anyone has suggestions along those lines PLEASE let me know. (I should have had that in my original post).

Also, I'm picking up The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson tomorrow at the library, looked interesting.

>>906422
Looks great, I think I'll read this, too!

>>906435

Yeah , awhile back i googled "top 10 sci-fi books'' and altered carbon was in top 10 i believe

>>906457
uh i meant to say ''top 100''

>>906457
I'm curious if there was a reason you recommended that one opposed to the others? I don't want to know the plot, I just read a blurb about the premise and it sounded intriguing.

Got 2 good suggestions, anymore input?

I'd reccomend Iain M. Banks' Culture novles, but then I reccomend them in every sci fi thread I see.

>>906403
Anything by Maurice G. Dantec, or at least what's translated in English

>>906403
Venusia by Mark Von Schlegel has everything you describe.

>>906403
Dantec sounds exactly like what you're looking for. Crazy French Cyberpunk/Christian-Futurist author with a hard-on for America, Israel,mysticism and warfare

>>906403 (OP)
Dantec sounds exactly like what you're looking for. Crazy French Cyberpunk/Christian-Futurist author with a hard-on for America, Israel,mysticism and warfare/modern science

>>906403
Dantec sounds exactly like what you're looking for. Crazy French Cyberpunk/Christian-Futurist author with a hard-on for America, Israel,mysticism and warfare/modern science

I recommend picking up Anathem OP. I enjoyed it a lot.

I'd say "A Canticle for Leibowitz" for it's good characters and being one of the first sci-fi novels were a reliable world was built. However, it's from the 50ies, so it doesn't fit your requirements - go read it anyway.

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Thanks!

>>906415
i read altered carbon a few months back, absolutely loved it.

The Passage by Justin Cronin. I highly recommend it.

The badguy in this book is a God-Spider, who brings about the apocolypse in true Lovecraftian manner.

The spider is called the "Doom Weaver"

I mean Jesus Christ, what more do I have to say to get you to read this book?

Ultimate badass spider called "Doom Weaver", might be the greatest name ever.

>>910294
D...Doomweaver?

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>>910294
the weaver wasn't bad!

>>910294
sounds cool

>>910294
Hey guys, like stealing my ideas?

Under the Dome by Stephen King. His newest book, I believe. Reading it now. Shitting bricks.

>>910912
It's XBOXHUEG but is it worth it?

>>910922
it's a page turner, but not that great.
worth reading if you like King, probably not worth paying for.

>>910934
I think a paperback just got released or is about to. Will be much cheaper.

>>910912
Started reading it and quit after a 3-4 chapters. Such a ridiculous contrivance completely took me out of the story.

>>910934

Meh, I'm enjoying it. It gets better as it goes on.

>>910937
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Nick Sagan's Idlewild trilogy seems to have everything on that list.

The Left Hand of Darkness

One of the most important things to remember about sci-fi, is don't read any books by female authors.

Also: just because sci-fi is old doesn't make it bad.
Some sci-fi has aged very poorly, but plenty is good after 60+ years.

cant go much past the gap sequence. but it want written in the last decade-ish.

>>906760
Seconded.
Also all his non culture scifi, the worlds he builds are mindfucking.

>>911202
This

The City and the Stars is God Tier, for example.

>Written in the last decade-ish

Is the 1980s okay?

>Innovative world-building

How about a post-catastrophe Britain where rough hunter-gatherers and early agriculturalists live in weird tribal groups at an iron age level of technology, smoking marijuana for ritual ceremonies and telling stories based on ancient hunks of metal? And how about it's written in an initially barely comprehensible broken future English?

>-Relatable, dimensional characters

You want to do some relating? Don't mind working for it? Don't mind trying to 'relate' across a vast stretch of time and culture, through a fake language from a different world? Then you can probably relate to a kid, a smart kid, who cannot avoid thinking and considering everything he sees and does, who is intellectually curious and sometimes impulsive...

>-Original and creative speculation regarding society/gov't/science/technology

What does it tell you when the government is little more than a pair of officers protected by a small warrior caste going around demanding tithes from people and keeping them in line with a history-censoring, message-carrying performance of a Punch and Judy puppet show? Or when that government embarks on an attempt to recapture some element of the lost past - an attempt that illuminates the horror of said past? Read on to find out.

>-I'm not averse to spiritual/psychological elements

Well then, knock yourself out with echoes of Anglo-Saxon interpretations of Christian myths, the suspicion of psychic radar, and full-blown religious experiences.

Add it all together and
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For its resemblance to the criteria that you entered, you have been recommended:
'Riddley Walker' by Russell Hoban